On 23 February 2026 ESMA opened a consultation (paper reference ESMA91-1505572268-4513) on the draft regulatory technical standards that set the conditions for using guarantees as CCP collateral at an EU central counterparty. The consultation closed on 30 April 2026. The subject is narrow on paper and wide in practice: the draft RTS amends Commission Delegated…
On 17 June 2026, MONEYVAL published its third enhanced follow-up report on Bulgaria, and the headline is clear: Bulgaria is now rated compliant or largely compliant on all 40 FATF Recommendations, and no further reporting is required under MONEYVAL’s fifth-round evaluation. For anyone who runs country-risk models or approves correspondent relationships, the MONEYVAL Bulgaria AML…
The Law of 17 July 2026 was published in the Journal officiel of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Memorial A no. 386) on 30 July 2026. It inserts rules allowing specified writs, appeal documents and petitions to be filed with the court registry by electronic mail in proceedings governed by the Commercial Code and the…
From 1 October 2026 the Sveriges Riksbank starts collecting payment statistics directly from payment service providers and payment system operators, and Riksbank payment statistics reporting becomes a standing filing obligation. The obligation sits in the Riksbank’s regulations RBFS 2025:1, adopted on 25 June 2025. Subject to Section 1’s exclusions, it applies to payment service providers…
From 31 July 2026, a Luxembourg UCITS management company or authorised AIFM that notifies a cross-border management activity has to use a new set of forms. On 30 July 2026 the CSSF published updated notification-letter templates and confirmed that the earlier versions stop being valid the next day. The same cut-off applies to the eDesk…
On 30 July 2026 the Single Resolution Board published a renewed Operational Guidance on the Business Reorganisation Plan Analysis Report, together with a complementary quantitative template and a feedback statement closing the public consultation that ran from 3 February to 30 March 2026. The SRB is explicit on one point that shapes how reporting and…
On 28 July 2026, EFRAG placed the 2026 revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards and the new voluntary standard inside the ESRS Knowledge Hub as an interactive document set. The revised standards were adopted by the European Commission as delegated acts on 3 July 2026, and the Hub is where preparers can now read the final…
The number that decides whether a firm falls inside the EU clearing obligation is about to be measured differently. Under EMIR 3, Regulation (EU) 2024/2987, the EMIR 3 clearing thresholds stop asking how much a counterparty trades over the counter and start asking how much it leaves uncleared. On 25 February 2026 ESMA published its…
On 26 June 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published a report on terrorist financing through social media, instant messaging applications and streaming platforms, and it lands with an uncomfortable number attached. Fewer than 30% of jurisdictions contributing to the FATF report said that this risk was covered in their national risk assessments. That national-level…
On 1 July 2026 the United Kingdom took over the two-year Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force and used its first day to launch the FATF 2026-2028 Roadmap on Combatting Fraud. The launch event, opened by the incoming FATF President Giles Thomson and supported by Executive Secretary Violaine Clerc, set fraud as one of…